Chih-Yuan Yang

Chih-Yuan Yang General Information

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Mr. Chih-Yuan Yang is a Founding Partner of AME Cloud Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Lenovo. He serves as Board Member, Member of the Compensation Committee & Cahir of the Investment Committee at Workday. He serves as a Chairman of the Compensation Committee, Board Member and nominating, and Corporate Governance Committee Member at Alibaba Group. He is a Chairman of the Investment Committee and a Member of the Compensation Committee at Workday. He also served as a Board Member and Advisor at BirdEye. He serves as an Advisor at SignalFire. He served as a Board Member at Pluribus Networks. He also served as an Advisor at Radius Intelligence. He serves as a Board Observer and Senior Advisor at Didi Kuaidi. Since March 2012, he has worked with and invested in technology entrepreneurs as the founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures, his innovation investment firm. He is also a co-founder of Yahoo!, where he served as a director from March 1995 to January 2012, and as Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to January 2009. He also led Yahoo!'s investments in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group Holding and he is currently a director of Alibaba Group, where he has served on the board from October 2005 to January 2012 and from September 2014 to the present. He has been an independent non-executive director of the Company since November 6, 2014. Before that, he was the board observer of the Company since February 20, 2013. From July 2000 to November 2012, he was a member of Cisco Systems' Board of Directors, and he was a director of Yahoo! Japan from January 1996 to January 2012. He also is a director of various private companies and foundations. He is currently an independent director of Workday. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he served as Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees from June 2005 until September 2016. He served as a Board Member at Docker. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Advisor at News Break. He served as Advisor at ClimateAI.